Hi, can someone provide an overall description on what gets overwritten in a Mint dist-upgarde and what does not? Just a top level summary would be nice. I tried to google for this, but found nothing relevant.For what I can see, some settings I made in sysv-rc-conf stay intact in the process. I'm just wondering, what type of configuration stays the same and what gets overwritten?

A dist-upgrade with the correct repositories is not dangerous, but with repositories from another Ubuntu version than the one Mint is based on can be utterly devastatingapt update > the list of what you have is updated (not the sources.list but the list of what's contained within the reposapt upgrade > the upgrade is used to install the newest versions of all packages currently installed on the system apt dist-upgrade goes deeper, to quote man apt-get:dist-upgrade in addition to performing the function of upgrade, also intelligently handles changing dependencies with new versions of packages; apt-get has a "smart" conflict resolution system, and it will attempt to upgrade the most important packages at the expense of less important ones if necessary.As you see it's not easy to tell exactly what will happen